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# Pereda, Mariners Clobber Mets 8-3; Win Streak Extends to Eight
- URL: https://www.emeraldcityspectrum.com/seattle-mariners-jhonny-pereda-propels-win-new-york-mets/
- Published: 2026-06-03T09:10:09.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-08T06:11:27.000Z
- Author: Callaghan Bluechel
- Tags: News, Analysis, Mariners, Jhonny Pereda, Colt Emerson, Patrick Wisdom, Logan Gilbert, Dominic Canzone, Julio Rodriguez, Cole Young, Eduard Bazardo, Cooper Criswell

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![  Seattle Mariners catcher Jhonny Pereda (5) hits a 3-run home run against the New York Mets during the fifth inning at T-Mobile Park. Mandatory Credit: Steven Bisig-Imagn Images  ](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1d/f2/1df2f77b-83dd-4bc0-a6d2-6d1bb5df89a3/content/images/2026/10/jhonny-pereda-format-original.jpg)

Seattle Mariners catcher Jhonny Pereda (5) hits a 3-run home run against the New York Mets during the fifth inning at T-Mobile Park. Mandatory Credit: Steven Bisig-Imagn Images \[/caption\]

It’s not clear exactly which Mariner defined the team’s resounding 8-3 victory on Tuesday night. Perhaps it was catcher Jhonny Pereda, whose putaway homer represented a recovery from the canonical worst experience for a catcher to have. Or maybe it was Colt Emerson, who increased his OPS to .935 with a pair of hits and who finished off the game with a sweet sliding catch. A case could be made for Patrick Wisdom, who logged his first Mariners home run and got the hitting party started way back in the second.

All three of those, it might be noted, began 2026 with the Triple-A Tacoma Rainiers. 

But regardless of whoever may be first among equals, the Mariners had a steadily stiffening hold on the game from start to finish. Even when the visiting Mets tied it up in the third, Seattle kept the pressure going against bulk hurler Jonah Tong and New York soon cracked. And the M’s finally logged a string of three straight series wins.

“Boy, if I had the magic touch, we’d keep it forever,” Wilson said of his team’s eight-game win streak. “Sometimes that’s just the game, and we’ve talked about how offense is contagious, and it just feels like the energy offensively has been outstanding … we’ve seen just how exciting it can be when it gets that way.”

### Patrick Wisdom knocked his first Mariners homer to put Seattle up 2-0 early.

Coming into Tuesday’s game, the Mariners had hit a grand total of 18 home runs in their previous seven contests, a pace of 2.57 homers per game. That isn’t going to be sustainable over the long term; the highest figure a team has ever posted was a tie between the 2023 Atlanta Braves and 2019 Minnesota Twins at 1.90 home runs per game. But it was a marked upturn from Seattle’s 1.11 home runs per game figure, and after Tuesday, the M’s have hit 1.31 home runs per game in all of 2026.

One of Seattle’s homers on Monday came off the bat of Josh Naylor, but the swing tweaked his back, and he was unavailable for Tuesday’s game. Infielder Patrick Wisdom suited up for his seventh career Mariners game in Naylor’s absence. 

“Dan (Wilson) got me pretty early and said, this is kind of the situation, make sure you’re ready to play,” Wisdom recalled postgame.

Wisdom had suffered through his own injury, an oblique issue, in mid-April. He sustained it in his very first Mariners appearance, having just been called up to the majors after hitting nine homers in 15 games for the Rainiers; the infielder then had to go back to Tacoma for a rehab stint before rejoining Seattle at the end of May.

“I’d never had anything like that before, so when I felt it, I was unsure about what it was. It’s not a fun injury to have, especially as a hitter,” Wisdom said. “But I think it was a good way to slow everything down again, just get back to the basics, get with the training staff and the strength staff about body stuff and kind of honing in on that.”

But despite his powerhouse showing in Triple-A, Wisdom hadn’t had that notable of a showing with the big league club, going 2-15 before Tuesday. The last time he had hit a big fly in the big leagues was on Sept. 21, 2024, when he was still with the Cubs. In the intervening time, he had spent a season in Korea before joining the M’s.

For the second straight day, the Mets went with an opener, this time Huascar Brazobán, who worked around a leadoff walk to J.P. Crawford to keep a clean sheet in the first. But after the first of Dominic Canzone’s three ground ball hits - perhaps another aspect of winning luck is how many bouncers the M’s DH seared through the infield - Brazobán let an 0-2 changeup leak over the plate and Wisdom torpedoed it on a high arc to left center, 429 feet away.

At the conclusion of Tuesday’s action, Wisdom stood with a .600 OPS on the season. Any hint of a breakout is still long away, but if there is something there, the Mariners certainly shouldn’t look a gift horse in the mouth. The opener Brazobán soon had to leave for Tong.

### Logan Gilbert had a decent outing, though he still suffered from nagging efficiency issues.

Only one aspect of the game stuck out as less than an A-grade performance, and it was a non-quality start from Logan Gilbert. He didn’t fall apart by any means, certainly keeping his team in the game with the only real damage coming from two homers by the same Met, but he certainly could have played better with the stuff he has.

Gilbert didn’t look much different from previous performances, an assessment applied as both a positive and a negative. He worked ahead from the jump, getting good counts early with a lot of fastballs, and despite getting some deep counts, he managed to keep his pitch count low with some field outs over those frames. But he didn’t mix up his sequences very effectively and got quickly flustered when A.J. Ewing jumped on an early fastball with an out in the third, knocking a double down the right field line. 

Although Gilbert struck out Hayden Senger with a mix of four-seamers and sliders, he offered a plated cutter to Mets rookie Carson Benge and it wound up in the seats for a game-tying blast. It was one of just two cutters Gilbert threw in the game. It has been a pitch that, for whatever reason, has been worse than the fundamentals perhaps would indicate: a .261/.335/.353 StatCast expected slash line on it going into Tuesday was far worse than the actual .370/.433/.556 slash that batters had against it.

“I don’t know, really, all the under-the-hood numbers on it,” Gilbert noted about that pitch. “It feels pretty good, so we use it in certain counts. Really haven’t been using it a ton lately, but I feel like it’s there if we need it.”

Gilbert proceeded to lose control of one and plunk Bo Bichette, but he gunned Juan Soto down with all secondaries and got him to chase a 1-2 splitter.

That splitter had a good amount of action for much of the game, with a total of three strikeouts on the pitch. But the duality of Gilbert’s split is told in two statistics: whiff rate, where three of five swings (60%) against the pitch were misses, and called strike plus whiff rate (CSW rate), where just three of 18 splitters (16.7%) were called strikes or swings and misses. To put it plainly, Gilbert once again telegraphed when he would be throwing it and the hitters acted accordingly, easily laying off 0-2 counts.

Gilbert had opposing hitters in an 0-2 count seven times, by the way, in six separate at-bats. Six of the seven pitches with that count were taken for ball one, including all five splitters. The 1-2 count provided five of the punchouts, with a much more diverse arsenal being used in that situation, but his lack of true secondary control made for plenty of deeper counts and foul balls.

That wasn’t to say he could only throw heaters. Seven out of 21 swings against his slider were whiffs and he had a 37% CSW rate on the pitch; it formed the backbone of his non-fastball action when he didn’t go for the splitter. Unlike the off-speed pitches, he is more comfortable using sliders whenever, and this allows for more deceptive application of the pitch.

“It felt good. I think it’s good depth, the action’s on it’s good, I trust it in any count,” “I think Jhonny did a good job of recognizing when to use it, so he’s really been good in the last couple starts of, I think, recognizing hitters, situations to throw certain pitches in. And I’m just trying to ‘put a fastball on it,’ I call it, like, sell it: make it look like - your body, your arm, your hand, everything - try to sell that it’s a fastball coming out.”

But with the pedigree of success Gilbert has at the major league level and the physical shapes in his arsenal, continued five-and-dive outings and sixth inning exits are disheartening.

In any case, Gilbert worked cleanly through the fourth and fifth before giving up a second home run to Benge and having to be pulled in a two-on, one-out situation with some following baserunners. But by that point in the game, the Mariners had blown it open.

### Jhonny Pereda whacked a three-run homer that put the M’s in a commanding lead.

When Cal Raleigh officially went to the IL with his oblique issue, the Mariners didn’t expect either backup catching option to definitively catch on, with Mitch Garver as the favorite simply due to his experience dealing with Mariners pitching.

That might be a more complicated matter after Tuesday. Pereda entered the game with a .235/.316/.324 slash line during the 2026 season, but his well above average hard hit rate and propensity to pull balls in the air suggested the makings of a bit more than a varsity athlete. He had already taken a couple of fairly lengthy at-bats with one ending in a single, but in the top of the fifth, he got the wind knocked out of him on a foul ball that caromed off a certain region with a bizarrely extensive Mariners injury history. Wilson checked on him immediately following the cup shot in the fifth and again in the sixth.

“I mentioned that to him (Pereda) when I came to take out Logan, I’d said, ‘are you doing ok?’, he said ‘yeah, maybe that should happen more often,’” Wilson said, “He responded to it. But it’s tough, that’s the nature of the position, that’s what happens back there.”

Pereda, by that point, had already made a pretty good effort to get back on his feet. By that point in the game, the M’s had already retaken the lead, with a pair of little league doubles thanks to shoddy (describing the two errors nicely) infield defense from New York in the third and a bases-loaded sacrifice fly from Julio Rodríguez in the fourth. But despite their long spells of dormancy, the Mets do have plenty of talent on their roster, and a two-run lead wasn’t going to necessarily mean smooth sailing.

A hit by Cole Young and Canzone’s second grounder single set the table with one out, and although Wisdom grounded out, he did so at a sharp angle to the hole between first and second and Mets second baseman Marcus Semien could only get the out at first. Pereda came up with two in scoring position. 

Tong made some of the best pitches he had all game, spraying four-seamers, changeups, and cutters on the edges of the zone. The first pitch Pereda took for a ball, but other than that, it was a game of fouling good stuff off and laying off just one non-competitive changeup. Finally, as Tong moved back to the inside of the plate with a cutter, Pereda got a beat on it.

Seattle’s 4-2 lead became 7-2, and despite some traffic in the sixth, the Mets had clearly emptied the tank by the time the last third of the game arrived. Eduard Bazardo bailed out Gilbert with a one-pitch double play in that inning and, after Rodríguez extended his cushion with a solo shot off Cionel Pérez in the bottom half, Bazardo benefitted from another double play in the seventh and cut New York’s remaining outs to six.

Cooper Criswell didn’t deal with much issue in the final two frames, but the newest Mariner would make sure that the smallest of green shoots for the visitors were stamped out.

### Colt Emerson put together two hits with the bat and two good plays with the glove.

The Mariners’ rookie infielder didn’t score at all on Tuesday, but that wasn’t for lack of effort on his part. After Wisdom’s second-inning shot, Emerson became the one to do the honors of knocking Brazobán out of the contest with a line drive double down the right field line. Emerson seems to have a knack for hitting that hole in the field, though of course there has been some luck involved.

But Emerson made his own luck in the bottom of the fifth, dropping a bunt single against a seemingly stunned Mets infield right after Pereda’s homer. After his 2-4 showing with the stick, Emerson now has a .271/.352/.583 slash line and 13 career hits in 15 games. 

It was the defense that finished things off at the end of the game. Emerson has long been noted as a stalwart defensive prospect while coming up through the minors, and he robbed New York pinch-hitter MJ Melendez of a hit as he swiped away a hard grounder to his right in the top of the eighth. And although Emerson didn’t quite *need* to put in the grit on his second big play - the M’s were up 8-3 and only needed one out - he still charged into foul ground and made a quick slide near the wall to eat up a Brett Baty pop-up and end the game.

Wilson, like so many in the organization, praised Emerson’s maturity and confidence. It was a dual piece of praise he had for him and for his fellow drafted-and-developed infielder Young, who he also saw good development in during the season.

“Like we’ve talked about with Cole (Young) last year some, and this year, again, and what we’ve seen from Colt (Emerson) already, just their maturity level has been so key for ‘em,” Wilson said of the infield youngsters. “Again that goes back to all the people that have prepared them for this moment, and you can’t forget about that, but certainly, these guys have come up and they’ve gotten comfortable quickly. They’ve gotten to the point where they can not feel overwhelmed in the box, and they’re putting up really strong at-bats, finding barrels and driving the ball more than just kinda getting their hits.”

### On Deck

Wednesday afternoon contains an opportunity for the Mariners to secure their third straight three-game sweep and win a ninth consecutive ballgame. With a 33-29 record, the M’s are 2 ½ games up on first place in the AL West, their nearest opponent now the similarly-surging Texas Rangers. 

The matinee will be the only time the Mets use a traditional starter in the series, with right-hander Freddy Peralta (3.55 ERA, 3.96 FIP, 1.303 WHIP) taking the bump. Although Peralta has taken a step back from his strong season with the Brewers in 2025, he is still a more formidable opponent for M’s hitting to face. George Kirby (3.77 ERA, 3.49 FIP, 1.216 WHIP) will be on the mound for Seattle.